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Black Beauty is one of the best-selling and most-beloved books of all time; a ground-breaking anthropomorphic novel so poignant it led to international outrage and protest against the treatment of working horse...

J.K. Rowling released four new articles on Pottermore last week discussing the history of magic in North America. In anticipation of the first movie instalment of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them this ye...

Get your tissues out while Sparky Sweets looks at Wilson Rawls' Where the Red Fern Grows.
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One of this week's media trends has seen various newspapers and websites leading Harry Potter readers down the garden path, making vague claims that their old Harry Potter books could be worth thousands. It has...

Heroines have outnumbered the heroes, but villainesses have also outnumbered the villains in a recent Top 10 Greatest Heroes, Most Evil Villains and Future Classics in Children's Books poll. The heroines, h...

Tolkien scholar Wayne Hammond has tracked down two long-lost poems in the 1936 annual of Our Lady’s School in Oxfordshire.
Hammond made the discovery when he found a note written by Tolkien, in which the...

Lying about having read a book usually always ends badly. Trust me, while I never used to outright lie to customers when I had a bookshop, I used to naively think that adopting an agreeable approach was safe. T...

Pottermore has announced that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be the official eighth book in the Harry Potter series, with the script book of the new stage play being released July 31st, the day after th...

With the seventh episode of Star Wars focusing on a new generation, you may have been left wondering what became of our old heroes in the long gap between The Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. After all...

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would su...

The end of Harry Potter's story in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in 2007 seems like an absolute lifetime ago, and indeed it will be nine years this July. And if you had told me nine years ago that we wou...

J.K. Rowling has finally divulged details on the other mysterious magical schools in the Harry Potter universe. In a collection of articles on Pottermore, Jo has revealed that:
There are eleven long-establ...

As promised, house sorting and wands have returned to Pottermore.com. The official Harry Potter website underwent some decidedly unpopular changes last year and removed all of the interactive features that fans...

Beatrix Potter's Kitty-in-Boots
A lost Beatrix Potter treasure has been discovered by publisher Jo Hanks. Ms Hanks found a reference to The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots in an unedited manuscript of a 1970s biogra...

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an ut...

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